Today I shucked (a marvellous term) my first oyster. This is the scene of the crime. I got better at subsequent ones. Unforgiveably I had forgotten to get some tabasco sauce, my favourite accompaniment. But, oh, that taste of the sea.
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Cheeky flowers
These pansies have seeded in between the paving slabs from last year. I probably couldn’t get them to do that if I tried. I decided to leave them there, as it makes a change from the weeds coming up between the slabs.
Rose addition
I mentioned that I wanted to improve my cooking skills a few days ago, I think I will also improve my gardening (from “time to mow the lawn I see”). My dad gave me this rose bush to add to the garden which I planted up today. It doesn’t have a smell, apparently that’s the deal with roses these days: you can have prettiness or you can have fragrance, you can’t have both.
The right seat
Went to the cinema tonight (saw horror film Oculus which was very good). They now have allocated seating. This leads to all sorts of dilemmas for a British person: the cinema was not very full, but my allocated seat was directly behind two people. Do I sit in it, when normally I would allow more space? Or do I not sit in it and thus risk being in a seat that has been allocated to someone else? I preferred being trusted to find my own seat to be honest.
Baseball on valium
Today I played for IET in the OU 6-a-side cricket tournament. We weren’t very good but managed to win. I think ‘wide’ was the highest scorer for both teams. The quote is from Robin Williams describing cricket.
Landing Lights
I did a [url=http://www.valeways.org.uk/files/walks/29.pdf]10 mile circular walk[/url] with Pip today which took in some coast, circled around the airport and across farm land. I have to say, a lot of it was quite unpleasant, the paths aren;t used much so you had to wade through 2 metres of stinging nettles to get to a stile (and I was wearing shorts), or cross through fields with chest high vegetation and no path. You do come around by the airport though and at one point are standing right in the flight path.
You can see more [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/edtechie/sets/72157645174544821/]photos here.[/url]
Burger time
Made some burgers today – the secret ingredient is to crush up cream crackers and add to the mince. It didn’t even rain when we fired up the BBQ.
The verdant hills
Walked the dogs up Craig Yr Allt tonight in the sunshine, the Garth and beyond looked lush and green.
The Peacock scholar
After giving a presentation yesterday in Bristol, today I gave one for Bath uni at the very posh [url=http://www.corsham-court.co.uk/]Corsham Court[/url]. This was for early stage researchers, and I was the opening speaker on digital scholarship. My insights were accompanied by the occasional crawing call from the peacock outside. I don’t think he agreed.
Bristol in the sun
I gave a talk for the HEA Academy today for their Teaching Ethics summit. It was about digital scholarship/open practice and the issues this raises ethically. It was an interesting way to think of it, as I don’t usually approach the topic from an ethics perspective. For instance, to what extent should we force students to operate in the open; is it ethical not to expose your students to the best teaching content out there; what do we do if predictive analytics tell us someone is likely to fail but they want to carry on; what are the ethics of not developing these types of skills and awareness in our students.
It was at the Grand Hotel in Bristol, and it was a lovely sunny day to be picking at thorny ethical issues.
